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BOOKRACK Original Filed April 26, 1953 E23.Pa'ckerz'@ I era'ra a INVENTORS ATTORNEY Patented'Aug. '27, 1935 j UNITED-STATES PATENT OFFICE:

. noommox Harold B. Pickering and Edythe Marie Pickering,

Manhasset, N. Y.

Application April 26, 1933', serial No. 668.010

' Renewed January 19, 1935.

1 Claim. (01. 45-58) i This invention relates to new and useful imcharacteristic of the nature of, thebooks. 'Pins provements in book racks. 6 and 1 are fastened to the flat surface]. The

i I It is the object of the present invention to prolongitudinal axes of the pins are in alignment .vide a simple, inexpensive and yet ornamental i with one another and parallel to the surface 4.

5 rack for books and'particularly for books'bound The spacing between the pins and the surface 4 5 by means of a spiral spring screwed into perfois such that a book may, be inserted between t rations near the edges of book leaves such as is l the two pins and by slightly flexing the spring 2) described in Patent No. 1,516,932, of November and then allowing it to straighten, the pins 5 and 25, 1924 to L. Staab. 6 will project within the convolutions of the 10 I With this object in view; we provide two pins spring at the ends-thereof. The diametero'f the 1.0

- in the rack so spaced from one another and the pins is smaller than that of the spring spirals.

rack that the ends of the spring at the edge of The book can be readily removed by grasping" the book may be readilyheldthereby. the spring 2-near its center. A preferred embodiment of the invention is 11 What is claimed is: a r I .1ustrated. in the drawing in hic a In a rack for books having a binding consist- Fig.1 is a front elevation of a rack'holding a ing of a spiral spring; screwed into perforations book, and I of the book leaves near the edges thereof, aiflat Fig. 2 shows an opened book which has been surface and two pins fastened to said surface in removed from the rack. V, alignment withone anotherandwith their lon- The book leaves I are bound together by means gitudinal axes parallel to but in a different plane 2 of a spiral spring 2 screwed into perforations 3 than said surface, the distance between theop- 7 near the edges of the leaves, the spacing of the posing ends of the pins being less thanthelength V spring spirals being equal to" that oftheperfoof said spring and the diameter of the pins be rations. The spring 2 is of substantially'the ing less than thediameter of the spring convo 25 same length asthe book. I v a lutions; I I v 25 The rack proper consists of a flat surface 4 HAROLD B.-PICKERING. which may be surmounted by a. decoration 5 EDYTHE MARIE PICKERING; 

